Golf stick



Patented Aug. 4, 1925.

TOI-IN D. WILSON, OF D-ANVILLE, ILLINOIS.

GOLF

Application filed Novelnber To @ZZ 'whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN D. wWILSON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Danville, in the county of Vermilion and State of Illinois, have invented new and useful Improvements in Golf Sticks, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to mallets designed to be used for playing a game combining the salient features of a golf game as well as croquet, and the invention therefore has for its object to provide a mallet of novel and improved form as will be described in detail hereinafter.

In order that the invention may be better understood, reference is had vto the accompanying drawing forming a part of this specification.

In the drawing, Figure 1 is a side elevation of the improved mallet, Figures 2 and 3 are end views thereof, and Figure 4 is a cross section on the line --t of Figure l.

Referring specifically to the drawing, 5 denotes a handle of suitable length to the outer end of which is fitted a mallet head 6, the latter extending transversely of the handle as usual and projecting from opposite sides thereof. The ends 7 and 8 of the head 6 are the striking faces and it will be noted that the end 7 is beveled so that the striking face formed by said end has a decided inoline upwardly and rearwardly. The head 6 is elliptical in cross-section, as shown in Figure 4, and hence the two striking faces are correspondingly shaped surfaces. It will also be noted in Figure l that the head is curved in the direction of its length so that it is convex at the bottom. Y

The game is to be played with a ball slightly smaller than a base-ball, but of the same or similar composition. The striking face 8 STICK.

15, 1921. Serial No. 515,267.

is to be used for hitting the'ball on flat ground or off a tee-mound. If the ball has stopped in a sunken or soft spot, the striking face 7 is used with a scoop-like stroke to unseat and project the ball,the curvature of the head 6 assisting in the action. The ball will be given the usual back spin, but it will strike the ground without rolling. The game, due to the use of a comparatively soft ball, will be rather short-distanced, or a medium between croquet and golf. Strength may be employed for a smart or driving blow without the necessity of walking a long distance to recover the ball. The beveled striking face 7 is also useful where it is necessary to'make the ball overcome a small mound or obstruction before it can continue on its way.

I claim:

In a game playing mallet, a head forming the segment of an annular torus, and a handle connected to the concave side of the head radially thereto, said segment terminating in elliptical striking faces, one of said faces lying in a plane intersecting the head between the point of intersection of the plane passing through the point of inter section of the radial plane extending through the axis of the head perpendicular-ly thereto at the point of intersection of the plane of the face and the aXis of said handle and through the point of intersection of said radial plane and the axis of the handle, and the other of said faces lying in a plane intersecting the aXis of the handle at a point more remote from the head than the point of intersection of a radial plane passing through the axis of said head andy the axis of said handle.

In testimony whereof I aiiX my signature.

JOI-IN D. IVILSON. 

